Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.

The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.

Let silence be the art you practice

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.